Calls for Participation
Overview
MESA provides this opportunity for session organizers to find others to join them in preorganizing a session through an open call for participation. The session organizer and session participants must then submit their proposals in myMESA following the directions to MESA’s Call for Papers for the 59th MESA annual meeting, which will be held November 22-25, 2025, in Washington, DC.
Submitting an Open Call for other participants to join your session
Complete the form below.
- Please note that the form at the bottom of the page is not where to submit individual paper proposals, panels, and/or roundtables. Instead, all proposals are submitted via myMESA, our membership and submission system. Please find the directions for doing that here, in the full Call for Papers.
- The MESA 2025 Call for Papers closes at 11:59AM (Noon) Eastern Standard Time (4:59 PM UTC) on Thursday, February 13, 2025. We recommend that you submit your call for participation well in advance of this deadline so that all participants can organize and submit via myMESA prior to the deadline.
We welcome any questions about the submission process to [email protected].
Responding to an Open Call for Participation
MESA offers these listings as a service to members seeking to collaborate with other members. Read the list of calls and the desciptions below, then contact the organizer of the session directly to indicate your interest.
Member Calls for Participation
The Middle East remains a focal point of global politics, driven by complex issues that shape the region's stability and influence. This session explores key contemporary challenges, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the implications of U.S. and Russian foreign policies, the shifting dynamics of Gulf alliances, the rise of Iran's regional influence, and ongoing conflicts in Syria and Yemen. Additionally, the session will examine the impact of economic diversification efforts, energy politics, and the role of emerging actors in the region. By addressing these pressing topics, the discussion aims to provide insights into the evolving political landscape of the Middle East.
Organizer: Dr. Jibrin Ubale Yahaya
Submit your abstract to [email protected] by Feb 13, 2025 for consideration
2025 marks the 350th anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutions of Tunis, a thirty-year internecine conflict heralding the end of the Muradid dynasty and the rise of the Husaynids, who would rule from 1705 to 1957. In the decades surrounding 1675, profound transformations took place in Tunisia's position in the Mediterranean, as the nation formed new treaty relationships with Britain, France and the Netherlands, reframed its relationships to corsairing and trade, and became increasingly autonomous within the Ottoman Empire. Endowed with fertile soil and a relatively large population, and bounded to the north by the Sicilian Channel to Malta and Sicily, as critical both to commerce and combat as Gibraltar or the Dardanelles, communication between Tunis and the north was constant. The papers in this panel introduce rich new sources for the agency and practices of Tunisians and Europeans amongst the conflicts and transformations in Tunisia and its neighbours across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on day-to-day relationships, material exchanges, and religious practices that crossed boundaries, we reconstruct stories to challenge hackneyed narratives of eternal Christian-Muslim conflict and animosity, of ‘holy war’ and ‘gunboat diplomacy’. Much as Natalie Rothman showed in Brokering Empire, relationships and judgements among ‘trans-imperial subjects’ were formed on the basis of multiple interlocking identities. Reading against the grain of European sources, we expose how Tunisians skilfully and strategically exploited Mediterranean economies of trade and corsairing, highlight how political and economic changes connected with the rise of converts and captives to high positions in Tunisian society, and explore the geographical sites where exchanges of people, goods, beliefs, opinions, and information took place. In a contemporary moment when the Sicilian Channel remains a critical bridge between north and south, understanding the long interconnections between cross-cultural relationships and international power structures in this region is extraordinarily important.
Organizer: Nat Cutter
Submit your abstract to [email protected] by January 27, 2025